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FREE EVENT

Risk Management: The Twenty-One Biggest Ethical and Legal Mistakes Made by Psychotherapists
in New York State

Date: Friday, February 6, 2026

Time: 10am-12pm

Location: Live Webinar

Credits: 2 CEs  ACE, APA, NBCC, NYSED (LMSWs, LCSWs, LMHCs, LMFTs, Psychologists), OASAS

Instructor: Bruce Hillowe, JD, PhD, Attorney and Counselor at Law

Cost: Free ​​

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(***This offering is a 2-hour abridged version of our full-day Legal & Ethical Issues for Psychotherapists course, designed to highlight key concepts and practical takeaways.***)

The target audience is beginning, intermediate, and advanced-level psychotherapists, counselors, and other mental health professionals. 

 

 

Course Description
 

                This continuing education course will focus on strategies to avoid the most common ethical and legal mistakes made by psychotherapists in their practices.  The mistakes arise in areas of documentation, supervision, referral, diagnosis, confidentiality, informed consent, professional boundaries, competence, record access, termination of care, billing and subpoenas, among others.  Key coping strategies will be provided, including understanding the clinical, personal and external factors that are associated with making errors. The course helps psychotherapists proactively anticipate and manage those circumstances where mistakes are common in order to avoid them.  

 

Learning Objectives

1.  Psychotherapists will analyze the most common ethical and legal mistakes that practitioners make.

2.  Psychotherapists will predict the events that can lead to them making such ethical and legal errors.

3.  Psychotherapists will formulate strategies that can help them avoid these mistakes in their practices.

4.  Psychotherapists will differentiate the role of ethics codes and laws and regulations that assist in conceptualizing and rectifying therapist mistakes

5.  Psychotherapists will recognize clinical and personal factors that increase the likelihood of making these mistakes.

Speaker: Bruce Hillowe, JD, PhD

Bruce V. Hillowe, J.D, Ph.D. is a senior mental healthcare attorney with a law practice in Mineola affiliated with the firm of Schaupp McDermott.  A graduate of Binghamton University, Duke University School of Law, and Adelphi University Derner Institute (Clinical Psychology and Postdoctoral Programs), he formerly practiced as a psychologist-psychoanalyst, including as a coordinator of clinical training and director of a forensic mental health service.  He was a teaching attending psychologist in law and ethics at a major teaching hospital for 15 years. He currently teaches courses in ethics and law as adjunct faculty at the Derner Institute.   He has represented numerous mental health facilities, institutes, and practitioners.  He has written articles, book chapters and a book on HIPAA compliance. He is listed in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers in healthcare law and was a long-time "SuperLawyer" featured in the New York Times Magazine.

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CONFLICT OF INTEREST:

CSLI is not aware of any conflict(s) of interest in relation to this program.

Moreover, CSLI is not aware of additional commercial support for this program.

 

 

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